A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.

The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.

It is very difficult in quarreling to be certain in either one what the other one is remembering. It is very often astonishing to each one quarreling to find out what the other one was remembering for quarreling. Mostly in quarreling not any one is finding out what the other one is remembering for quarreling, what the other one is remembering from quarreling.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.