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

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others very quickly.... My last piece of advice is not to let anyone see your mortification, but whatever you fancy people are saying about you to go on with your ordinary life as though nothing unpleasant had happened to you.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.