Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

At the moment they vanished they were everywhere, the cool benediction of the night descended, the stars sparkled, and the whole universe was a hill.

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.

The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.