True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Each time you happen to me all over again.

Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

Life is made up of compromises.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.

We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.

It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.