Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.

No work begun shall ever pause for death.

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it.

And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,- comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable.

Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge.