What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?

What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?

Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?

No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.

The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives

What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.