An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?

A pipe is a pocket philosopher,--a truer one than Socrates, for it never asks questions. Socrates must have been very tiresome, when one thinks of it.

Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.

There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.