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

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

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.

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.