...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

Don't use big words. They mean so little.

Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.