The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.