Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country

Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.