Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.

If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.

If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go.

They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.