The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting. Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu.