No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.

The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.