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.

A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short.

a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.

The suitable is the last thing we ever want.

Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.