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.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.

Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence.

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.