When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)
You do not know the madness of scholarly curiosity, Mr Webster. To be interested, and at the same time disinterested…
There was altogether too much candor in married life; it was an indelicate modern idea, and frequently led to upsets in a household, if not divorce...
Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life.
It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice to everyone except Parisians.
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrus...
Her words depressed him. They were like spilt sugar; however much you swept it up some grains would keep grinding under your feet.
Culture cannot compensate for lack of hard knowledge.
Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties.
[My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in love and better. All day long when I was busy [...], I had my unfinished novel personified a...
The word 'education' comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a...
[Being in love] is something like poetry. Certainly you can analyze it and expound its various senses and intentions but there is always something left over mysteriously hovering between music and...
These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.
He turns a page of his newspaper and folds it conveniently for reading, and reads it without looking at her again, settling further into his seat with the slight sigh of one whose visitor has left and...
I can tell you that if there’s nothing wrong with you except fat it is easy to get thin. You eat and drink the same as always, only half. If you are handed a plate of food, leave half; if you have to...
After thirty years' hostile fellowship with Collie, of course she did quite well understand that collie had a habit of skipping several stages in the logical sequence of her thoughts and would utter a...
If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is not another practice whic...
People who want to write books do so because they feel it to be the easiest thing they can do. They can read and write, they can afford any of the instruments of book writing such as pens, paper, comp...
How do you know when you're in love?' she said.'The traffic improves and the cost of living seems very low.
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