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.

Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.