You have changed a certainty into a possibility, and I hate…

Mr Pollexfen was at one and the same time right and wrong—a condition much more common than is generally supposed.

When we know all of whatever it may be, we can never do anything but forgive, madame. That is the profoundest religious truth that was ever written. It contains, in fact, a whole religion—the noblest religion any man could have to guide …

Bestir, ladies! To your chaise, and see that you contrive to look your best. Soon the eyes of Guichen will be upon you, and the condition of your interior to-morrow will depend upon the impression made by your exterior to-day.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!

"Sir!" she checked him. "I think you are talking treason." "I hope I am not obscure," said he.