A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.