The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.

Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.

Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.

Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiae seldom have their minds occupied with great things.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.