Nothing can be more puritanical in application than the virtues.

Allow me, in conclusion, to congratulate you warmly upon your sexual intercourse, as well as your singing.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

[My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in love and better. All day long when I was busy [...], I had my unfinished novel personified almost as a secret companion and accomplice following me like a shadow wherever I went, whatever I did.

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.