Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
Truly, a little love-making is a very pleasant thing.
Assuredly, meeting after absence, is one of - ah, no! - it is life's most delicious feeling.
Eyes that droop like summer flowers.
We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.
Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them; they are rather known by their want than by their presence. The word 'blasé' has been coined expressly for the use of the upper classes.