Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance.

He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.

I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

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

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

The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.