Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

Divorces are made in heaven.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

I have a simple taste, only the best.