The Joy Of A Strong Nature Is

The Loss Of Our Illusions Is The Only Loss From Which We Never Recover.

Woman's Fatal Weakness Is To Desire Sympathy And Comprehension. --"wanda

Emulation Is Active Virtue; Envy Is Brooding Malice.

A Man May Be A Great Statesman, And Yet Dislike His Wife, And Like Somebody Else's. A Man May Be A Great Hero, And Yet He May Have An Unseemly Passion, Or An Unpaid Tailor. But The British Public Does Not Understand This. ... It Thinks, Unhappily Or Happily As You May Choose To Consider, That Genius Should Keep The Whole Ten Commandments. Now, Genius Is Conspicuous For Breaking Them.

Friendship Is Such An Elastic Word. There Never Was An Age When It Stood For So Many Things In Private, And Was Yet So Absolutely Non-existent In Fact.