The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design.

Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.

Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.

There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.