There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.

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.

How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom

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

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.