The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life - that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.

Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined for peace and amity, instead of disorder and contention.

...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

I have lived too long in foreign parts

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.