Nothing more predisposes someone in our favour than to let him rob you a little.

So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others. [The human element]

No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it.

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

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.