The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so

Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.