Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.