You can't have genius without patience.

To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.

silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?

Nothing may be more selfish than remorse.

Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.

Age, with shamefaced relief, has learned the solvent quality of Time. It is this quality which makes possible the contemplation of certain embarrassing heavenly reunions.