The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.

A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.