If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.

I always want to know the things one shouldn't do." "So as to do them?" asked her aunt. "So as to choose." said Isabel

Her memory's your love. You want no other.

No, no—there are depths, depths! The more I go over it, the more I see in it, and the more I see in it, the more I fear. I don’t know what I don’t see—what I don’t fear!

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.