The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.