“Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.”

“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”

“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.”

“The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.”

“Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.”

“When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.”

“Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation”