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.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

An improper mind is a perpetual feast.

The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

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

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.