An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.

Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.