Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Satire, like conscience, reminds us of what we often wish to forget.

A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . .