I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference.

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

You can never know enough about your characters

Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies of the damned...undaunted by failure, by an unceasing effort of courage holding despair at bay, doggedly persistent in the face of self-doubt, which is the artist's bitterest enemy.