Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.