Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.

Writing is the supreme solace.

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.