The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

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

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.