The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!

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

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

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

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.