Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.