"Work as if you were in the early days of a better nation."

"I asked the headmaster of literature, "Why are there so many headmasters and so few poets? Is it easier for you to tr…"

"A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has…"

"The first major Scottish novelist since Walter Scott."

"Gray is in my estimation a great writer, perhaps the greatest living in this archipelago today."

"Will books, as we know them, come to an end? Yes, absolutely, within 25 years the digital revolution will bring about…"

"We like to think we're free in the ; that we're beyond the forces of advertising and social manipulation by market fo…"

"Communal living: Plato recommended it, 19th-century religious separatists tried it, anarchists and hippies spectacula…"

"In general appearance the is an extremely large and powerful fellow, with a beautiful head and speaking countenance, …"

"Very few of the old s interfere with the duties of their assistants, but there be men who seem to think you have mere…"