There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.

No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes

Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any.

to teach without zest is a crime.

Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: "I've shirked two parties, and another Frenchman, and buying a hat, and tea with Hilda Trevelyan, for I really can't combine all this with keeping all my imaginary people going.

So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again.

It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.