"Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return."

"History develops, art stands still."

"The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal."

"Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice."

"The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal."

"The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture."

"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."

"The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new."