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

I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.

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.

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

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

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

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