Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.

Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.