Only love makes fruitful the soul. The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice, to dislike the clothes and voices of other men - all this was precious to her beyond everything.

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful, we have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

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

the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done