Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.

No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.

There is no gift more great than love.

The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell for leather, and the machinist sees three idiots sitting on the rail track. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true."

For all men have but a little while to live and none knows his fate thereafter. So that a man possesses nothing certainly save a brief loan of his body: and yet the body of man is capable of much curious pleasure.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.