Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

The great events of the world take place in the brain.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.