“There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.”

“There's no tongue that's so tied, when tying's needed, as the one that babbles most bewhiles. Babbling covers a lot of secrets.”

“She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.”

“War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.”

“He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.”

“Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.”

“It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.”