As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

an optimist is the man who looks after your eyes, and the pessimist the person who looks after your feet.

A butler in an English household should, however, be English, and as much like an archbishop as possible.

envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.