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.

The art of life is to show your hand.

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

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

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.

Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.

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