When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
Only the united beat of sex and heart can create ecstasy.
One policeman may be a friend, but two are the Law.
People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.
A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.
A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern.