The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.

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.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.

[Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.