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.

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs.

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

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

The art of life is to show your hand.