The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.

Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.

There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.

the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.