It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.

It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.

You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.

We do not write as we want, but as we can.

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.