Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.
There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.
Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand!