It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.

The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square, Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.

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.

Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.

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