Why was I born with such contemporaries?

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.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

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

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.