I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, Th….

Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time..

History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same..

Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise..

One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone..

This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts..

A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar purity of the blue sky see….

I would never wound a cat's feelings, no matter how downright aggressive I might be to humans..

If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen..