Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.