My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.

I burn with no causes.

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.

We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.

"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.