“Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.”

the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done

It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal.

How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.

Headlines twice the size of the events.

Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one’s work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature.

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London.

Matters change and morals change; men remain.

The building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.

Beginnings are always messy.

Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

He might wish and wish and never get it – the beauty and the loving in the world!

We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls.

Public opinion’s always in advance of the law.

And just about anybody you can think of who has made country music has been on that stage. That’s what makes you so nervous.

That’s the way its always been and it will always continue to be that way.

Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing – but none of them serious.

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

Continents of memory had been lost.

If you can achieve that, that then it has been a pretty good game.

You will follow every mountain, sea and shore, You will see from far and near a world you’ve never seen before.

And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.