A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

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.

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.

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

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

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.

The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.