It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.

She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.