Women have been brought up much like slaves, that is, to lie.

The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.

People who don't like scandals shouldn't be in finance.

Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.

Venus can see at night without eyes.

Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.

A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.