Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony.

When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.