Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

Sensuality is the death of the soul.

One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.