I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

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.

Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.