"Enchanted woods are rare. But I suspect that where they exist, and seem — so deep is their magic — to march nowhere on reality, they are most often within a stone's-throw of the dear homes of every day ; nor is it needful to travel very far afield in order to find them."

"The spectacle was born from the world's loss of unity, and the immense expansion of the modern spectacle reveals the enormity of this loss."

"Give us spare time, Holy Jerome, and joyful energy to use it."

"I should prefer to be miserable, ill, and feared, and live in some out of the way corner, than to be "settled” and given my place in modern mediocrity!"