We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.