Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.

If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.