People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.