Life isn't long enough for love and art.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it does not entertain you it is a bad novel.

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

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.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.