Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

Art, like Nature, has her monsters