The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.
Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.
There is no diplomacy like candor.
A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.