There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.

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

Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.

The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.