There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.

She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. 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 the things that I might have avoided. We can help one another but little. I used to think I could teach young people the whole of life, but I know better now, and all my teaching of George has come down to this: beware of muddle.