When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

If you do not push the boundaries, you will never know where they are.

Home is where one starts from.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

Those who arrive at the end of the journey are not those who began.

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.