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

All perfection is melancholy.

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.

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

A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.

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