Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.

If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary