The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.

Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.