True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

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

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

A woman in love has full intelligence of her power; the more virtuous she is, the more effective her coquetry.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.

Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past in this manner, life for them would lose all dignity and they could never resist the fatal familiarities to which they once submitted.