Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

It's better to be friends with someone that is willing to be your friend than someone that doesn't.

-The little comfort of love?-Is that comfort so little?-Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.

I could smell death in the air and I knew it was mine. I could see the world spinning around me and I could sense the blows being thrust into my body. I blacked out.

Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil.

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.

I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless.

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism.

I'm the first to admit that I'm still pretty young.