If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.

Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.

A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.

I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.

We are, none of us, pillars of strength. We use our moments of strength to carry us through our moments of weakness.

The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.

Trust me, darlin', I've got skills for every room in the house.

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

My voice was not heard, the questions were not asked that I wanted to see asked.

Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true "Poem on His Birthday

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness

Shoot, two things I said I wasn't going to do: Cry and give air quotes.