It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy

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.

I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.

She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!"