Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.

The crown of literature is poetry.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.