Behind every fortune there is a crime.

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker

To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.