The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.

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

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

Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls.

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

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