“Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.”

“An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.”

“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.”

“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”

“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”

“Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.”

“Of course, I should have got rid of you. I should have shaken you out of my life as a man shakes from his raiment a thing that has stung him.”