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.

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.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death.

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

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

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

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.