No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.

The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.