A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.