A humanist has four leading characteristics - curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race. - E. M. Forster

But it is sometimes as difficult to lose one's temper as it is difficult at other times to keep it.

I enjoy French poetry as well as French prose, and I believe that this land must have some cultural connection with the European continent, and that she is best connected through her spiritual complement across the Straits of Dover.

I am the means and not the end. I am the food and not the life. Stand by yourself, as that boy has stood. I cannot save you. For poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth.