On Life:
After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.
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On Success:
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.