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

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.

Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.