However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.