I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.