A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is directed to her by the appreciative gaze of another man.

People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.

Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult him all the time. The older I grow, the better I know him and the more I understand him.

Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.

If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.