A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.

My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.

You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.