There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to want to display it to the best advantage.

It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed

There are as many sorts of women as there are women.

People who do not get into scrapes are a great deal less interesting than those who do.

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest.

There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to want to display it to the best advantage.