Who said “Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or…”?

“All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.”

“Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”

“Charm is more than beauty.”

“Charm is a product of the unexpected.”

“Things forbidden have a secret charm.”

“Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

“Book love, my friends, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.”

“As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.”

“He must have known me had he seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognise me by my face.”

“Above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.”

“The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little -- or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.”