It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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.

A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

Life is too short to be taken seriously.

The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.