The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

Most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.

But the sea which no one tends is also a garden

I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.

Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.