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.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.

Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.

In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.