Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'

There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!