Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

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.

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.