Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.