What better proof of love can there be than money? A ten-shilling note shows incontrovertibly just how mad about you a man is.

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.

I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a cushion over it. I know it's not that they're interested in." But to the boys this profession never seemed shameful. It was their daytime occupations for which they felt the need to apologize. In some instances, these were lower class or humdrum or, worst of all, unfeminine. At least whoring was never that.

Every day someone notices me and waves to me, or stops and speaks to me, or asks me for an autograph, or photographs me.

The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

Most men when they make up their faces, the makeup stands forward, and their faces are behind.