I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them.

It is not that the Englishman can't feel-it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks-his pipe might fall out if he did.

It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.

Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.