Belief of some sort is the lifeblood of Art.

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.

Excess always carries its own retribution.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.

A man may be a great statesman, and yet dislike his wife, and like somebody else's. A man may be a great hero, and yet he may have an unseemly passion, or an unpaid tailor. But the British public does not understand this. ... It thinks, unhappily or happily as you may choose to consider, that genius should keep the whole ten commandments. Now, genius is conspicuous for breaking them.

There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.