I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.

Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now

He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.

In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.