Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.