The proper school to learn art is not life but art

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.