There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.

It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.