If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

No great thing happens suddenly.

It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.

Unhappy people are dangerous.

[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is as smooth as a mill-pond it shrinks to the size of a mill-pond.

There is nothing more frightening than the faces of people whom one does not know but who seem to know one, and be amused by one.

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.