"After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron."

"At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of something beautiful … The only sort of book…"

"I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he'd been through, never worried about it.... I thought it would be me."

"I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them what was what; professors who had devoted their lives to mastering and focusing ideas in ev…"

"Take the actions of our nearest friends, and how little do we know of the hopes that instigated, or of the fears that prevailed ! We sometimes cannot avoid owning that we ourselves have committed a fa…"