Many love me, but by none am I enough beloved.

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

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

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.

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.

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

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.