She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.

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

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.

Thou canst not serve both cod and salmon.

People were not charmed with Eglantine because she herself was charming, but because she was charmed.

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.

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