There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we love that the guilt with which we are born becomes intolerable, and since all those whom we love intensely and continuously grow part of us, and since we hate ourselves in them, so we torture ourselves and them together.

We fear something before we hate.

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

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

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.