Attacks on me will do no harm, and silent contempt is the best answer to them.

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

The purest joy is to live without disguise, unconstrained by the ties of a grave reputation.

The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish.

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

Shamelessness is the shame of being without shame.

Keep no company with those whose position is high but whose morals are low.

Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.

The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

It is one thing to slander, another to accuse.

Reputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.