What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women?

Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport.

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

And it is the way with us that you may express disapproval of the sun or the moon, or anything you like, but God preserve you from touching the Liberals! Heaven forbid!

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

What a delight it is to respect people!