"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

"In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes."

"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."

"Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."

"But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way."

"I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience -- and laughter."

"She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake."

"If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate."

"It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back."

"Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves."

"Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see a lot of people doing it."