The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.

If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.

genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.

Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.