Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.