A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
John GalsworthyBy the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.
John GalsworthyReligion 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.
John GalsworthyWealth 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.
John GalsworthyBeauty 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.
John GalsworthyThere 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.
John Galsworthy