There is no diplomacy like candor.

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

A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.

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

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

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

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.