"It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost e…"

"Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities."

"When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches…"

"The "rights of man" are the right of the less voracious to restrain those who are more so."

"The rights of the poor majority are pure air and pure water, and sufficient space to walk about in, when the rich min…"

"I don't suffer much from solitude in the evenings. I spring upon my books. I always spoke a good word for solitude, a…"

"It seems to me that a great secret of early education is not to overrate the powers of attention in children. If they…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"

"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"