the world is not always kind to a clever woman even when she is visibly known to be earning her own living. There are always spiteful tongues wagging in the secret corners and byways, ready to assert that her work is not her own and and that some man is in the background, helping to keep her!

A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.

Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to places he has never seen, and surrounds him with strange circumstances of which he is merely the spiritual eyewitness.

Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.