Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

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?

There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.

It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.