It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.

It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.