The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.

Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.

Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.