Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

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