We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.

Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.

No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.

A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.