He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always mus… - E. M. Forster

I'm always right. I'm quite uneasy at being always right so often.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

For the barrier of language is sometimes a blessed barrier, which only lets pass what is good. Or — to put the thing less cynically — we may be better in new clean words, which have never been tainted by our pettiness or vice. Phillip, at all events, lived more graciously in Italian, the very phrases of which entice one to be happy and kind.