After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.

Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.

But Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality has no such simple effect upon the mind of man.

There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.

Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

You have been in every way all that anyone could be.... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.