A gentleman never offends unintentionally

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.

She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.