My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect---simply a confession of failures. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. But I don't want to interrupt you. Go on with your story.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.