I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.