Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and God himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.

It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

It is good to be on your guard against an Englishman who speaks French perfectly; he is very likely to be a card-sharper or an attache in the diplomatic service.

1 have never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down hill.

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.

We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.