To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in sloping meadows, the feeling that every flower and leaf has just uttered something stupendously direct and important, and that we have by a prodigy of imbecility not heard or understood it. There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.