I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.