One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

'A friend,' he repeated, sentimental suddenly. 'Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.'

All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.

Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes.