Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

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.