Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.

It was the hour when gauze-winged insects are born that only live for a day.

How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

Contrast is the dramatist's method.

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.