It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country

Life is too short to be in a hurry.

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

If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.