When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.

In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.

People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.

You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.

It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.