He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.

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.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.