No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

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

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

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

For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not the very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them.

Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.