At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.
“The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.”
“It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.”