The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.