When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

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