There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.

We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops

Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine

Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.

A woman's heart is such a complex problem - the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution to this puzzle.

To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us.

I have so often been asked the question: "But how did you come to think of The Scarlet Pimpernel?" And my answer has always been: "It was God's will that I should." And to you moderns, who perhaps do not believe as I do, I will say, "In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny."