The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

My reputation grows with every failure.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.