I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.