True friends stab you in the front.

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.