The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.

Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.