History takes time. History makes memory.

it is a peaceful thing to be one succeeding.

I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

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