The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

It isn't possible to love and to part.

You confuse what's important with what's impressive.

Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.