There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.
All is vanity, and discovering it - the greatest vanity.
An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.
To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life.
Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.
A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.