Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.

Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

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.

Why, I can't help smiling at people, and speaking prettily to them. I know I'm no better than the rest of the world; but I can't help it if I'm pleasanter. It's constitutional.

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.