Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practised at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.
Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.
There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood. Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.