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.

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.

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

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

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

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.

I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong.