"We are terrified of future catastrophes and are thrown into a continuous state of misery and anxiety, and for fear of…"

"I do not think of the priesthood as liberty, as many do, but as the most severe and oppressive form of service."

"I am determined not to assume the sacerdotal office; for I have seen many men whom I have regarded as persons of good…"

"Every man waits his destined hour; even the cities are doomed to their fate. Let us spend our leisure with our books,…"

"I think I should not omit to mention the place where most of the above tales were related, I might almost say, acted.…"

"What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind."

"Death at the headlands, Hesiod, long ago Gave thee to drink of his unhonied wine: Now Boreas cannot reach thee lying …"

"Among the maggots that breed in the corruption of poetry one of the commonest is the bookworm. When Athens had decaye…"

"In The Waste Land Mr. Eliot has shown that he can at moments write real blank verse; but that is all. For the rest he…"

"My dream is of a British statesman who could say to his countrymen: "You are sick of war, weary of entanglements. The…"