Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.

You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.' Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip.

The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.