To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter.

There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.