After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.

They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown.