History is the science of what never happens twice.

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.

Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.

To penetrate one's being, one must go armed to the teeth.

...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language.

Everything changes but the avant-garde.

Power without abuse loses its charm.