The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.

I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.

I've been born, and once is enough.

Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... .

Distracted from distraction by distraction