If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.

The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?

It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.

The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.

Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!

An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul?