Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

But I think the most harmful change brought about by Victorian science in our attitude to nature lies in the demand that our relation with it must be purposive, industrious, always seeking greater knowledge.

We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.

Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.

The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.

My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.

Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.