"(Said in the context of semi-abstract art) Every time I look at a work of art, however good or bad, I always begin wi…"

"(In referring to Venice) It took a Frenchman and a Russian to give us clearer verbal snapshots of what the city-as-or…"

"(In reply to his most magical experience in Venice) ...a fish flew out of the Adriatic and went hurtling over our hea…"

"(Referring to Hodge the cat) His rumbles of content, and warm black fur, thawed the frost of my soul, and dispelled t…"

"Every man that has felt pain, knows how few the comforts are that can gladden him to whom health is denied. I fed Hod…"

""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…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"

"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"

"In a certain sense, many of us mutilate the mind and render it impotent, for there is in the nature of man an irresis…"