There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.

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.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.