It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

I want to be all used up when I die.

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.