As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.

Do not believe those persons who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.

Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.