"Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity."

"You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied."

Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.

"The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape."

"I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more."