“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.”

“It is better to be beautiful then to be good, but it is better to be good then to be ugly.”

“Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.”

“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”

“The unread is always better than the unreadable.”

“Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.”

“The less said about life's sores the better.”