Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse

We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."

Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.