Ouida

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.