... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.

Effective magic is transcendent nature.

Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.