Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.