I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.

It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.

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

The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

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.