One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

Passion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget civility and consideration and all the other curses of a refined nature. Above all, it should never ask for leave where there is a right of way.

Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society.