No adultery is bloodless.

As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.

But the English do not know what surprise is. No one ever turns his head to look at anyone else in the street.

But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.

I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world.

I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.

Over my real sorrows I never weep.