And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.