"O pastoral heart of England! like a psalm Of green days telling with a quiet beat."

"Only the heel Of splendid steel Shall stand secure on sliding fate, When golden navies weep their freight."

"I could not find the way to God; There were too many flaming suns For signposts, and the fearful road Led over wastes…"

"Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it—whole-heartedly—and delete …"

"And rather than make the book unwieldy I have eschewed notes—reluctantly when some obscure passage or allusion seemed…"

"I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which …"

"The best is the best, though a hundred judges have declared it so; nor had it been any feat to search out and insert …"

"Imitar equivale a moverse i fatigarse en el wagón de un ferrocarril: nos imajinamos realizar mucho i no hacemos más q…"

"El hombre anda con pasos cortos en la infancia i en la vejez."

"la forma da el mérito; n'olvidemos que sólo por la forma, el carbono se llama unas veces carbón i otras veces diamante"