Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

"Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information." "I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand." "Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that?" "I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person."

Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?