"Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure."

"The tragedy of love is indifference."

"Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way."

"She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put i…"

"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort…"

"The isn't only a sunny place for shady people."

"He knew that women appreciated neither irony nor sarcasm, but simple jokes and funny stories. He was amply provided w…"

"Now the world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of th…"

"The trouble with our younger authors is that they are all in the sixties."

"But who can fathom the subtleties of the human heart? Certainly not those who expect from it only decorous sentiments…"