He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in the summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.

Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.