The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.

Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore.

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.