A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.

I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.