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

An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

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.

It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.