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

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

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.

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

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.

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.