If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?

Love, always love. Perhaps that’s what we’re all looking for.

Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.

If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves.