When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.

A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.

...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.