Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.

The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.