"We can't command our love, but we can our actions."

"The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."

"You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles."

"It is a truism that the surest way to conceal a fact is to make it appear ridiculous."

"Heaven is to me as definite a world as Europe or the United States."