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

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.

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

'Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.

Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce "boum.

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

Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.