It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.

Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.

Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.

Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.

The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.

I hear it in the deep heart's core.

It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.