I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.

- Wilkie Collins

Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.

- Wilkie Collins

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

- Wilkie Collins

Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.

- Wilkie Collins

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

- Wilkie Collins

It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.

- Wilkie Collins

The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.

- Wilkie Collins

The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.

- Wilkie Collins