I fear You and, yes, I love You: and yet I cannot believe. Why could You not let me believe, where so many believed? Or else, why could You not let me deride, as the remainder derided so noisily? O God, why could You not let me have faith? for You gave me no faith in anything, not even in nothingness. It was not fair.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.

Thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor.

The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell for leather, and the machinist sees three idiots sitting on the rail track. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true."