Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London. Such was not quite the condition of Timothy's on the Bayswater Road, for Timothy's soul still had one foot in Timothy Forsyte's body, and Smither kept the atmosphere unchanging, of camphor and port wine and house whose windows are only opened to air it twice a day.

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.

He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world!

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