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.

Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass.

And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust

My mind may be American but my heart is British.

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.