But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

Nothing is more trying than nerves to people who have none.

And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.