In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.

There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.