I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world.

He is every other inch a gentleman.

It seemed a good idea at the time.

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.