"What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?"
"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us"
"We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand"
"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship"
"We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet"
"We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next"
"Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something"
"The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself"
"The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch"
"The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art"
"The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal"
"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon"
"No one is India"
"Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy"
"Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land"
"Love is always being given where it is not required"
"The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme"
"Unless we remember we cannot understand"
"People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness"
"Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety"
