It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.

orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.

nothing in life is more corroding than habit.

Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.

stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.

Plot and melodrama were in every life; in some so briefly as hardly to be recognized, in others-in that of certain men and women in the public eye, for instance-they were almost in the nature of a continuous performance.