When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

It's easy enough to make the truth look silly. A man never seems more foolish-like than he does when he's speaking his whole mind and heart.

I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them.

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.

She rose and followed her bust from the room.

Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.

Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.