Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

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.