How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.