The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.