I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

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."