Theories have nothing to do with life.

though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.

Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.

After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour