The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.

A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.

Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.

The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics.

Dare, will, keep silence.