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

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

Writing is the supreme solace.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.