Love supreme defies all sophistry.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish; but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief — a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .