It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.

I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.

They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.

Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted.