The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or whether he loved conversation because it made him thirsty.

Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.' Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look. I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth.

Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.