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.

One cares so little for the style in which one's praises are written.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.