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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art.

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

ADVICE IS A DANGEROUS GIFT, EVEN FROM THE WISE TO THE WISE, AND ALL COURSES MAY RUN ILL.

THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH ADVERBS.

A louse in the locks of literature.

 

God-gifted organ-voice of England,

 

Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls.

 

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,

 

Airy, fairy Lilian.

 

For words, like Nature, half reveal

 

For words, like Nature, half reveal

 

Let knowledge grow from more to more,

 

Elaine the fair, Elaine the loveable,

 

Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.

 

O Love, O fire! once he drew

 

There are various forms of production: artillery, automobiles, lorries. You also produce ‘commodities’, ‘works’, ‘products’. Such things are highly necessary. Engineering things. For people’s souls. ‘Products’ are highly necessary too. ‘Products’ are very important for people’s souls. You are engineers of human souls.

 

The two cultures and the scientific revolution.

 

What’s in a name? that which we call a rose

 

O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright.

 

The two hours’ traffick of our stage.

 

Orpheus with his lute made trees,

 

His nose was as sharp as a pen, and a’ babbled of green fields.