All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

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

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

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

When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

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.