Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.