Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.

A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.

You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.' Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip.

Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.

The humorist has a good eye for the humbug; he does not always recognize the saint.