One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

The sigh of all the seas breaking in measure round the isles soothed them; the night wrapped them; nothing broke their sleep, until, the birds beginning and the dawn weaving their thin voices in to its whiteness

To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.

Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.