“ The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. ”

“ The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. ”

“ Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. ”

“ Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. ”

“ Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. ”

“ Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. ”

“ If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully? ”

“ There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. ”

“ The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. ”

“ You cannot find peace by avoiding life. ”