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

There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

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

There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.

Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.