Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.

A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

nothing in life is more corroding than habit.

Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.