Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.

The tragedy of love is indifference.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.

Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.