I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.