I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

The right path is characterised by rough road.

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

You never know what people live through. Be kind to all people.

Never expect wolves to behave like sheep.

It's time to give the gavel back to God, we were never meant to be judges.

He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.

I grew up in a place called Malahide, which is by the water and is beautifully quiet, leafy, and part serene.

The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity.

A great pleasure in life is to do what they say you can't.

You can't be a clothes hanger for your entire life.