"Speech is the small change of silence."

"A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power."

"Caricature is rough truth."

"Cynicism is intellectual dandyism."

"The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere."

"Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose."

"I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man."

"The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong."

"A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are."

"Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl."

"There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by."

"I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man."

"The well of true wit is truth itself."

"Kissing don't last: cookery do!"

"Memoirs are the backstairs of history."

"Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!"

"Don't just count your years, make your years count."

"Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered."

"The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination."

"Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity."

"Bring the army of the faithful through."