Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

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

Life would be dull without them.

They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.