It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.