"I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?" "Yes, darling, with a little help from others."

The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.