The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it does not entertain you it is a bad novel.

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.

There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

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.

What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.