To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.

We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together.

The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

America is a young country with an old mentality.