Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.

Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea