And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.

The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.