Before Turner there was no fog in London.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

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.