If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

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.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

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