Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer

For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.

The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.

All that is observable in a man-that is to say his actions and such of his spiritual existence as can be deduced from his actions-falls into the domain of history.

Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love people rather than pity them, to remember the submerged - well, one can't do all these things at once, worse luck, because they're so contradictory. It's then that proportion comes in - to live by proportion. Don't begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.