The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.