Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts but about history and foreign customs. Not only about countries and cities, but about plants and animals. Not only about lichened rocks and curious markings on the bark of trees, but about stars and atoms. Not only about your friends but about that strange labyrinth we inhabit which we call ourselves. Then, if we do that, we will never suffer a moment's boredom.

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.