The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

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.

Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.