Then there was a man who said, ‘I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late’
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.
Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.
I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.
By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.
Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll make an exception.
There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.
There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.
It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.
He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.