There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.