Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart

A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.