The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

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

Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.

Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.