There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, - no doubt we are, - but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.

There is a bond, it appears, between mother and child which endures as long as they do. It is independent of love; reason cannot weaken it; hate cannot destroy it.

... it is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny.