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

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.

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.

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

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.

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