Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there.