Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.
People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.