Those who search for truth are too conscious of the maze to be hard on others...
Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.
I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.
There are occasions when I would rather feel like a fly than a spider.
Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.
All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.