The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

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

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.