By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.