Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.

... 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.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

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

Age, per se, may claim tenderness and pity, but not respect; that only comes when the years have brought humanity and wisdom and the experience that worketh hope.

Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.

gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.