“People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!”

“Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of peoples imagination.”

“Its very silly, she said, but I go on with it in spite of myself. Im afraid Im too easily pleased; no novel is so silly I cant read it.”

“When I read a novel my imagination starts off at a gallop and leaves the narrator hidden in a cloud of dust I have to come jogging twenty miles back to the denouement. ”

“If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.”

“I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prov...”

“Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.”

“She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond","What does?""This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.”

“I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.”

“True friends are like diamonds bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.”