The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

Duty is what one expects from others.