England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.
You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men. Suddenly some one tosses up a faded rosebud - a missile that should never have reached you - and down you drop to the ground.
Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man is destined for peace and amity, instead of disorder and contention.
An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
Keep making the movements of life.
I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.
The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.