The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror--on thethings that I might have avoided.

I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

The historian records, but the novelist creates.