The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

I have been feeling very much lately that cheerful insecurity is what our Lord asks of us.

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.

You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.

It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past.