We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.

I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in this respect, much the same as I am.

I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!

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

The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.

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.