Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.