I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!

If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.

A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.