Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle.
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.
With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough: Lord, if that were enough?
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.
A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.
The obscurest epoch is to-day.
Nothing made by brute force lasts.
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.