His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

You can give the Devil too much or too little attention.

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.