One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.

How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.

Don't be crazy to do a lot of things you can't do.

A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.

The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.

Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.