Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.