Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

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.

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.