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

The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.

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

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

'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.'

Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.