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

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.

... France is the genius among nations.

It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.