Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.
We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.
We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.