Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them I shudder.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.