There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.

She saw shrewdly that the world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willingly avoids the sight of distress.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood ... Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.

... he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading.