What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

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.