A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her - but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as th ...

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, deprecating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.