God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.