As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!