To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."