Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue.

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

There is even the dignity of vice.

There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

There are some women who are flirts upon principle; they consider it their duty to make themselves as pleasing as possible to every one.