Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.