Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."