Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.

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

If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.