I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

The only thing more compelling than love is power.

But if what can exist does exist, is memory invention or is invention memory?

Knowledge is the value of a diamond but wisdom is the beauty and light it reflects.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.

[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.

There are one or two young men I wouldn't mind taking home.

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.

He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.

We are all powerless as children, and money looms so powerfully... we don't grow up to claim our financial power until we look money directly in the eye, face our fears, and claim that power back.