"To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies."

with whom she was conversing in that intensely earnest manner which is the one unpardonable error, as he remarked once himself, that all really good people fall into, and from which none of them ever quite escape.

punctuality is the thief of time.

Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom in secret love or strange affinity?

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit."

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Her flowerlike lips touched the withered cheek and warmed its frost.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.