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

To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation.

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

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

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.

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