God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.
The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.