Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.