Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly. Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.' Didn't you mean them?' At the moment.

For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not the very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them.

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.

A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.