Divorces are made in heaven.
That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.