Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.

I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.

I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.

[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.

Happiness is an immunity.

The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.

There are not enough poems in praise of bed.