A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.

Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.