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

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

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.

All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

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

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.