When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.