For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

There is no bore like a clever bore.