Every human institution (Justice included) will stretch a little, if…

Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.

"Ask yourself if there is any explanation of the mystery of your own life and death."

I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, and ends when they shut them up again at one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Nothing …

People who read stories are said to have excitable brains.

"A very remarkable work... in the present state of light literature in England, a novel that actually tells a story. It 's quite incredible, I know. Try the book. It has another extraordinary merit, it isn't written by a woman."

The actions of human beings are not invariably governed by the laws of pure reason