A little oil makes machinery work easy.

Hotel life is about the same in every latitude.

Hurry, drive and bustle ... Everybody looking out for number one, and caring little who jostled past, if their rights were not infringed.

How strong sometimes is weakness!

they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.