Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to his loving Pythias. A book that — at a touch — pours its heart into our own.

Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

I would like to have a second chance at my first love.