If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.

The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.