Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong beauty enchanting but rare goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, peolpe of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of a night we wake up to it again for ever and ever we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.

Life is a predicament which precedes death

Life's too short for chess

Live all you can it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had

Three things in human life are important the first is to be kind the second is to be kind and the third is to be kind

Ideas are, in truth, force

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition

England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head