The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he even enjoyed it, it remained utterly remote. I think it had lost sense for him. In his heart was the reflection of a lovely dream that he could never quite recall.

I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.