We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

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.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

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

The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.