Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Conventionality is not morality.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

Very often people have a very limited way of thinking.

History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.

The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history.

Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means.

Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.

More than a process, painting is being possessed.

Take a look people, take a good look at greatness!

Philanthropy requires thought, action, and passion.