There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.