There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.

I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or a sentence gives you a clue; and on a sudden suspicion, as it were, of the sense flashes across your troubled wits, vaguely she gained an inkling into the workings of Walter's mind. It was like a dark and ominous landscape seen by a flash of lightning and in a moment hidden again by the night. She shuddered at what she saw.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.

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