In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

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.

Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.