Literature is a house with many mansions.

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a person carrying a well-thumbed copy of 'Middlemarch' in his back pocket?

Among the many arguments to be made against cultural revolutions is that they are monotonous in spirit and monomaniacal in intention.

The young come in many guises: vigorous and passionate, vindictive and mean-spirited. And not every person over 65 is dozing in a retirement home.