A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.

I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?

A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.