A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.

All must respect those who respect themselves.

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

Lady Lytton rules her husband, but that I suppose is always the case where marriages are what is called 'happy'.

Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.