Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.

Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.

While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.