Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their 'large loves and heavenly charities.'

I read 'King Lear' soon after 'Macbeth,' and I shall never forget the feeling of horror when I came to the scene in which Gloster's eyes are put out. Anger sei…

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.

I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.