The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.

... caprice is as ruinous as routine.

She would not have put herself out so much to say so little.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. That new, that personal, vision is attained only by looking long enough at the object represented to make it the writer's own; and the mind which would bring this secret gem to fruition must be able to nourish it with an accumulated wealth of knowledge and experience.