The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

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.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.