I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.

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 salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

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.