Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

There is but one art, to omit.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.