An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.

An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.

People who picnic along the public highway leaving a clutter of greasy paper and swill (not a pretty name, but neither is it a pretty object!) for other people to walk or drive past, and to make a breeding place for flies, and furnish nourishment for rats, choose a disgusting way to repay the land-owner for the liberty they took in temporarily occupying his property.

It is impossible for a hatless woman to be chic.

Houses without personality are a series of walled enclosures with furniture standing around in them. Other houses are filled with things of little intrinsic value, even with much that is shabby and yet they have that inviting atmosphere.

If God had intended for women to wear slacks, He would have constructed them differently.