As a rule, only the poor are generous.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

Self-interest is an ineffable feeling which shall follow us into God's very presence since they say there is a hierarchy even among the Holy Saints.

Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.