Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.

Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.

The question is not what you look at – but how you look & whether you see.

There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin to my life.

I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out of it. I have altogether too much patience of this kind.

I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.