Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.