I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

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.

True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late