'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.'

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

I don't believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it. It's like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn't been told it existed.

I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.