Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.

A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

Women of the world crave excitement.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.