while nearly every way of falling in love is kind, every way of getting out of love is cruel.

though money is a fine servant, as a god, it does seem to develop all the evil qualities of the slave seated between the cherubim.

... nothing, of course, is ever so strange as love to the one who is not a lover.

while nearly every way of falling in love is kind, every way of getting out of love is cruel.

Results have nothing at all whatever to do with the private fun of being an author. There lies the answer to the problem which puzzles many wise people. Now it is plain why there are so many of us ... But the public fun of being an author is rather apt to wear thin.

there is no doubt that the garrulous bore is the most maddening creature to be shut up with for any length of time, on the wide earth. ... As a matter of fact, I have sometimes wondered if these impulsive, perfectly meaningless murders of which one has read at times, can have come about through one party babbling on endlessly - just once too often - when the other longed to be left in peace.

I know what kind of people would have the hottest corner in my conception of hell. It would be those who have helped to give goodness a bad name.