“We have to love because we love loving.”

Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.

Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.

A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!

And they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.

Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.

Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.

Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.

See what perils do environ those who meddle with hot iron.

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

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.

Only love makes fruitful the soul.

Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour.

All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret – almost magic.

Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.

Mature love is loving, not being loved.

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. The heart will break… but broken live on.

She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.

One thing that’s true of gritty people is they love what they do, and they keep loving what they do. So they’re not just in love for a day or a week.

Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.