The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.
Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.
Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.
I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely