Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.

In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.

convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.

What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.

No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.