It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom.

Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.