People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.

What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.