Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.

Headlines twice the size of the events.

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.

Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.

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

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

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.