While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph-green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

In every endeavour, we need God’s grace.

With just a little drop of kindness you can water a whole garden.

Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.

There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing their emotions in real time every waking hour.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

I'm not a trained dancer in the slightest.

Have you ever noticed that your ugliest friend is most afraid of being raped?

We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (who need help most).

Dont count the things you do, do the things that count.