Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight could save him.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.