Of two evils, I always choose the lesser.

The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.

I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots. After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception