I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

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

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.