The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.

After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.

Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.

The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.