Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

The mind, too, has its regimen. It needs gymnastics, just like the body does.

Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.