John Galsworthy

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

Only love makes fruitful the soul.

It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.

Life was to be lived — not torpidly dozed through in this queer cultured place, where age was in the blood! Life was for love — to be enjoyed!

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing — deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.

They did not stop to love each other in this life; they were so sure they had all eternity to do it in. The doctrine was an invention to enable men to act like dogs with clear consciences. Love could never come to full fruition till it was …

The world's a fine place for those who go out to take it; there's lots of unknown stuff in it yet. I'll fill your lap, my pretty, so full of treasures that you shan't know yourself. A man wasn't meant to sit at home...