A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.

Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

Everyone should keep someone else's diary.