Everything passed, and what trace of its passage remained? It seemed to Kitty that they were all, the human race, like the drops of water in that river and they flowed on, each so close to the other and yet so far apart, a nameless flood, to the sea.

Ho idea che la sola cosa che ci permette di guardare senza disgusto il mondo in cui viviamo sia la bellezza che gli uomini di tanto in tanto creano dal caos. I quadri che dipingono, la musica che compongono, i libri che scrivono, la vita che vivono. Fra tutte, la cosa più ricca di bellezza è una vita bella. È questa l'opera d'arte più perfetta.

I describe myself as a member of the Church of England, which I suppose is an inoffensive way of saying that you don't believe in anything very much

Quizá cuando su vida acabe no deje de su paso por la tierra señales más profundas que las que un canto arrojado al río deja sobre la superficie del agua.

And then he felt the misery of his life.

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion...

Se cree un genio, pero está equivocado. El genio supone una capacidad infinita de trabajo. Lo único que hace falta es trabajar. Si uno se empeña en llegar, llega.

Dying is a dull, dreary affair. my advice is that you have nothing whatever to with it.

I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for aught but my own entertainment.

...some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.