26 Quotes by William John Locke

As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years.

I think love is serious. It’s like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet – and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.

No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.

I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?

Don’t be a genius, my son, it isn’t good for anybody.

Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It’s like the grain of mustard-seed.

Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.

Art is long, and the talk about it is even longer.