If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.

Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands - a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.

Beginnings are always messy.

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.