In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.

Mr. Arnold Bennett feels he has ranked himself for ever as a dry wine by what he mixed with himself of Maupassant; nevertheless he has put on the market some grocer's Sauterne in the form of several novels that are highly sentimental so far as their fundamental balance of values is concerned.

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.

Woman too commonly commits the sin of self-sacrifice whereby she consents to be sequestered in the home, without intellectual stimulus, so that the tranquil flame of her unspoiled soul should radiate purity and nobility upon an indefinitely extended family.

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

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