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

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

I used to attend scientific experiments when I was a girl at school. They invariably ended in an explosion. If Mr. Jennings will be so very kind, I should like to be warned of the explosion this time. With a view to getting it over, if possible, before I go to bed.

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

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.

But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them

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.