Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?

Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.

I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their veins, to try keeping four dogs, two of which are puppies.

... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.

Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty is gone.