Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind.

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.

A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.