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.

There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them.

Contrast is the dramatist's method.

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

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.

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

Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.