Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

almost all novels are love stories.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.