Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously conceals itself; it has in it a certain diffidence.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence.

It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.