Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?