To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

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.

Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

There are words which cut like steel.

The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a hot day, to the merest nothing.