How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

An echo of music, a face in the street, the wafer of the new moon, a wanton thought - only in the iridescence of things the vagabond soul is happy.