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

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

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

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

From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.

The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.