It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

All perfection is melancholy.

Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent.