Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others very quickly.... My last piece of advice is not to let anyone see your mortification, but whatever you fancy people are saying about you to go on with your ordinary life as though nothing unpleasant had happened to you.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.