The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.

The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.

But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.

There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.