“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”

“Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the priviledge of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor shall be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”

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

“There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.”

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

“Your mysterious young friend, whose name you have never told me, but whose picture really fascinates me, never thinks.”

“The unread is always better than the unreadable.”