We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

The great trues are too important to be new.

Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.