All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.

A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.

love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.