White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

The word good has many meanings.

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.