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.

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.

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

People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.

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

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