"The smell of the library was always the same – the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed…"

"No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he …"

"London goes beyond any boundary or convention. It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ev…"

"What captivity has been to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish. For us, the romance of our native land begins only …"

"The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their …"

"One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines."

"Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward."

"I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned."

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"