I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.

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.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

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.

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.