Molly Elliot Seawell quotes:

Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is necessarily a loafer.

As for myself, there are two things I dread, - death and marriage. I must die, but I need not marry. I have sworn I will never be taken alive.

Until he is forty, a man is too young to marry; and after he is forty, he is too old.