A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

True friends stab you in the front.

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Any place you love is the world to you.