It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.