Hate does not present many choices; if hate is your solution, you are fairly certain to hate all phemonena with equal joy and intensity, without troubling to drag into prominence any one feature from the loathsome whole.

The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?

What we suffer, what we endure, what we muff, what we kill, what we miss, what we are guilty of, is done by us, as individuals, in private.

I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.

Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through mediocrities of all kinds, to men of real brains and sensibility, more or less stiffened into various respectabilities or substitutes for respectability. The number of Ignorant Specialists is large. The number of hysterics and compulsives is also large.

The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of another.

O remember In your narrowing dark hours That more things move Than blood in the heart.