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

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.