A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.

There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.

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

I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.