Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.

Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.