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

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

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

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

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.