The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy.

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 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.

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.

There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.

Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.