All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

Sincerity is technique.

Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.

Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

To be free is often to be lonely.