"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy."

"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others."

"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."

"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."

"Beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."

"No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech."

"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."