Do not believe those persons who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet and acclaim the world.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.