The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. – Robertson Davies
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. – Robertson Davies
The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. – Robertson Davies
What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. – Robertson Davies
The majority of writers ought to translate themselves; there are but few thoughts that are born translated, that is, clothed with the power best fitted alike to express and transmit them. What we have in the first instance written for ourselves, should be written a second time for others. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847), Literature. First Section: Literature in Gene