This is a boy's lot: anything he does, anything whatever, may afterward turn out to have been a crime - he never knows. And punishment and clemency are alike inexplicable.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!

Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.

Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.

Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac Newton had been hit on the head, not by an apple, but by a young lady.