And there shall be a flame-green daybreak soon. And love itself will cry for insurrection! For tomorrow is also a day - and Titus has entered his stronghold.

For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.

It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible

As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip away on the endless current and are lost for ever in oblivion's black ocean.

This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.

I am clever enough to know that I am clever.

He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.