My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

The great events of the world take place in the brain.

As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.