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

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.

When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.

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