Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

Education is an admirable thing.

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.