'A friend,' he repeated, sentimental suddenly. 'Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.'

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.

They go forth [into the world] with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - not a cold one. The difference is important.

There's never any great risk as long as you have money.