To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.

Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension. --"Wanda

Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.

There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.