A biography for Robert Graveshasn’t been written yet.
“A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.”
“In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.”
“Most men—it is my experience—are neither virtuous nor scoundrels, good-hearted nor bad-hearted. They are a little of one thing and a little of the other and nothing for any length of time: ignoble mediocrities.”
“Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.”
“The conversation was like the sort one has in dreams—mad but interesting.”
“One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.”
“There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.”
“I am supposed to be an utter fool and the more I read the more of a fool they think me.”