It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don't want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.

The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

Ah, there are no children nowadays.

Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.