I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious.

If anybody ever marries you, it will be for the pleasure of hearing you talk piffle

there is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.