Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.

I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.