When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.

Sometimes the road was only a lane, with thick hawthorne hedges, and the green elms overhung it on either side so that when you looked up there was only a strip of blue sky between. And as you rode along in the warm, keen air you had a sensation that the world was standing still and life would last forever. Although you were pedaling with such energy you had a delicious feeling of laziness.

The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.