The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view

A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.

I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.

A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.

Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw.

Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!