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

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

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