What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.
Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
The art of life is to show your hand.
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.