And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them - children, duties, visits, bores, relations - the things that protect married people from each other.

I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.

They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.

The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.