The artist isn't particularly keen on getting a thing done, as you call it. He gets his pleasure out of doing it, playing with it, fooling with it, if you like. The mere completion of it is an incident.

The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.

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

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.

The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.