Hate is a grand, a strong quality! It makes nations, it builds up creeds! If men loved one another what should they need of a Church?

What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?

Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the quarry in some form of genius is at bay, is apt to increase its clamor in proportion to the aloofness of the pursued animal.

I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others.

nobody ever intends to be old.

What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

Fancy your having no sunshine in London yesterday! Here it was glorious, like full summer, and I sat up with the window wide open, listening to the discourse of two amorous thrushes.