My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.