The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.

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.

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

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.