Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.

The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.

marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.