I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.