In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.

To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.