Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.