Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.