So there’s an . . . an etiquette to raking. Some seducer’s code of honor. Is this what you’re telling me?

Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it.

He couldn’t compare a woman to a torrentially beautiful monsoon, and then look surprised that he’d gotten wet.

Certainty becomes you.

Is it truly so unfathomable, that an imperfect girl might be perfectly loved?

Oh no. Don't smile. You'll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.

Don’t. Don’t play that game.” His brow pressed to hers. “When I heard you cry out . . . it was like a saber to the gut. I wanted to die.

Forgive me, Your Grace. Are you suggesting a woman is some sort of … piece of fruit to you? One squeeze, and you know if she’s ripe?

A man might engage in flirtation with distinterest, even disdain. But he never teases without affection.

What is the world coming to, with these modern women? A man can't tell them what to do.

The Blushing Pansy," his cousin read aloud, in a tone of abject horror. "Tea shop and confectionery." Bram swore. This was going to be ugly.

Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved.

A tightly woven argument is impermeable to the frigid winds of criticism.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.