There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.
To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.