whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.

Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

He is every other inch a gentleman.

Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.