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

I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, and ends when they shut them up again at one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Nothing so astonishes and insults Christians of this sort as reminding them of their Christianity on a week-day.

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

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

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.

...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all.

Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.