A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.
Most people would far rather be seen through than not be seen at all.
You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.
Everything comes to the man who won't wait.
an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.
There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.