the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.