Men are strange beings, and must not be judged by rules that apply to women.

The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed...

There is no suffering like a child’s, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.

The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed ...

It was the smile which runs before a promise.

a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

the hand will often reveal more than the countenance ...

faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.

There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.