But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.

Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.' 'I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand.

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.