What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.