I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

A good book is an event in my life.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.

The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end.

How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God, what difficulty is there?

The day that I die will be by far the most beautiful day I ever lived.

The purpose of life afterall is to live it.

An old friend is a new house.

I see myself as the world's oldest living teenager... I try to get as much kick out of things as possible.

We're involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.

Talent should minister to genius.