I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

The secret of life is in art.