The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.

Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink.

You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their lives side by side, linked it may be, but not mingled, and that each one's inmost being must go through life eternally alone.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.