All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it paced of yore the temple courts of Thebes, still displays the self-reliant watchfulness which man has never taught it to lay aside.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.