It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.

The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions; consequently, it is when the Devil looks most noble and reasonable that he is most dangerous.

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.