Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers.

What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.

No being can make another one happy.

I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.