By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

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

Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule.