It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'

Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.

When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.

When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.

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.

Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.