Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

She loved him absolutely, perhaps for half an hour.

What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.