Jerome K. JeromeThinkers

Advice is like a good dinner: one assimilates it.

Being idle is impossible to enjoy thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

The Cat is an animal that does not say much, but one can tell enough to make one anxious not to hear the whole of it.

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

The French Revolution is an event ever since which the world is quivering to the reverberations of Rousseau’s voice.

Idleness is, like kisses; to be sweet must be stolen.

Idling is something one can enjoy when one has plenty of work to do.

Love is like the measles in that we all have to go through it.

Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection.

Night's heart is full of pity for us: she cannot ease our aching; she takes our hand in hers, and the little world grows very small and very far away beneath us, and, borne on her dark wings, we pass for a moment into a mightier Presence than her own, and in the wondrous light of that great Presence, all human life lies like a book before us, and we know that Pain and Sorrow are but the angels of God.

Poverty is a condition that necessitates the cultivation of the virtues.