The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.

Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.