When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.

Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.