Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

Truth is independent of facts always.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.