“We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.”

“You should treat the trivial things in life seriously and the serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality”

“It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously”

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”

“The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.”

“He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression...”

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”