A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.
The more cultured a man, the less fortunate he is.
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will say as usual: things used to be so much better, life today is worse than it used to be.
If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.