To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

The great trues are too important to be new.

Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls.

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.