We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven, " Poppy said glumly."Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.

The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.

Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.

Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!

When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.

I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.

What will matter is not your success but your significance.

If you're someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that's a sign of a life lived honorably.

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company