We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him. I should have thought he was led away. Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous.

He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense.

In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.

Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.