The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.

Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.

For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not the very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them.

I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.

They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.