To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.