Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.