It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

It's a lucky man, a very lucky man, who is committed to what he believes, who has stifled intellectual detachment and can relax in the luxury of his emotions - like a tipsy traveller resting for the night at wayside inn.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.

Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.