Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. 565
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what wants to do. 684
There are but two families in the world as my grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots. 527
The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it. 573
[Charm] It’s a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don’t need to have anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t much matter what else you have. 570
