It takes so little to undermine public confidence in a man.
It takes more than a printed notice to keep you from reality. If he was unhappy with his wife and could be happy with me, then why not? We’ve only one life to live.
It seems dreadful to say so, but there is something attractive to a girl in being told anyone is a bad man. She thinks at once that her love will reform him.
It is well to be off with the old love, before being on with the new.
It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violence for the reason that when their control does snap, it does so entirely!
It is the great tragedy of life, that women grow old.
It is romantic, you know, the transatlantic telephone. To speak so easily to someone nearly halfway across the globe. The telegraphed photograph—that too is romantic. Science is the greatest romance there is.
It is one thing to know that a man is guilty, it is quite another matter to prove him so.
It is often the case that one learns more about a person from their enemies than from their friends.
It is not the past that matters but the future.
It is not everything in life that has its ticket, so much. There are things that are not for sale.
It is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.