I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell

My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.

Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.

Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.