I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

While most of the things you've worried about have never happened, it's a different story with the things you haven't worried about. They are the ones that happen.

It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.

the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

I can't exist without books.