To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early or be respectable."

"We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death."

She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.