bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.

I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.

Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.