The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.

The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale of true literary civilization - which is now waiting to be taught the difference between a good book and a bad.

We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.