Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world. |
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God. |
Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you. |
Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish. |
How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions! |
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. |
He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave. |
Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true! |
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. |
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends. |
There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people. |
I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. |