A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

Excess always carries its own retribution.

Woman already controls by not seeming to do so. Talk no more of her rights.

What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --"Wanda

Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.