Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it

I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.