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.

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.