The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.