There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.

Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

Good reading makes for damn hard writing.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.