It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.