The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.

Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.

They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.

I've sometimes thought . . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.

I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things.