In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.

Any rapidly enacted episode. . .should be seen through only one pair of eyes.

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.

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?