When duty calls, that is when character counts.

Some handsome and ambitious men believe they are above all morality, and a woman's virtue becomes a mere challenge to them.

Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.

Create your own constituency of the infuriated.

To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place', because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place - a feel for one's own position in the control room-is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

When duty calls, that is when character counts.

Never assume the obvious is true.