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.

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

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.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

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.

A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.

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