Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

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.

Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.