We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.

A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.

Keats, it must be remembered, was a sensualist. His poems ... reveal him as a man not altogether free from the vulgarities of sensualism, as well as one who was able to transmute it into perfect literature.

No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.

Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.

Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news.

A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.