Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.

With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.

Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.

Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.

Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.