Strange, when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history or in… - Max Beerbohm

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased — short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

She was a young person whose reveries never were in retrospect. For her past was no treasury of distinct memories, all hoarded and classified, some brighter than others and more highly valued. All memories were for her but as the motes in one fused radiance that followed her and made more luminous the pathway of her future.