It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs of one's travels. For memory, in most of us, is a liar with galloping consumption. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
The more populous the world and the more intricate its structure, the greater must be its fundamental insecurity. A world-structure too elaborately scientific, if once disrupted by war, revolution, natural cataclysm or epidemic, might collapse into a chaos not easily… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
“It is unlikely that many of us will be famous, or even remembered. But not less important than the brilliant few that lead a… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn...… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
It seems to me as natural and necessary to keep notes, however brief, of one's reading, as logs of voyages or photographs of one's… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion,… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
