Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.

Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.

Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius.

Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.

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

We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.