She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.” Waddington, smiling, translated the question. “She says I’m good.” “As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue,” Kitty mocked.

The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.

Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.

I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.

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.