... nothing, of course, is ever so strange as love to the one who is not a lover.

though money is a fine servant, as a god, it does seem to develop all the evil qualities of the slave seated between the cherubim.

while nearly every way of falling in love is kind, every way of getting out of love is cruel.

The right sort of gossip is a charming and stimulating thing. The Odyssey itself is simply glorious gossip, and the same may be said of nearly every tale of mingled fact and legend which has been handed down to us through the ages.

I know what kind of people would have the hottest corner in my conception of hell. It would be those who have helped to give goodness a bad name.

there are - as every one knows - two kinds of writing: one coming out of your vitals and the other from the top of your head. The first is the only sort from which any true private pleasure can be gained, for it is a way of getting something out of life which seemed to be there in childhood, when childhood is quite over.

An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful thrill he feels himself.