What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom. Sometimes he awoke in the morning and felt nothing; his soul leaped, for he thought he was free; he loved no longer; but in a little while, as he grew wide awake, the pain settled in his heart, and he knew that he was not cured yet.

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.

There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like. It is enough if he eats a cutlet. But he should do that.