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.

I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.

He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.