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

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.