It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty, your true romantic has the truer vision, and beholds, afar off, in all its lurid splendour and terrible proportions, the piquant adventure we call life.

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

It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty, your true romantic has the truer vision, and beholds, afar off, in all its lurid splendour and terrible proportions, the piquant adventure we call life.

It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.

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

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.

One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.