Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.

I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.

I was lying in bed this morning and saying to myself, 'the remarkable thing about Ethel is her stupendous self-satisfaction' when in came your letter to confirm this profound psychological observation. How delighted I was!

I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.

Use words that soak up life.

Soup is cuisines kindest course