Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this rule; the flesh is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak.

The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.

[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.