It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

Imagination grows by exercise.

She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

There is no need for the writer to eat a whole sheep to be able to tell you what mutton tastes like. It is enough if he eats a cutlet. But he should do that.

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.