Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.

The day broke grey and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child's bed.

[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.

You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.