Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.

You can always tell the old river hand by the way in which he stretches himself out upon the cushions at the bottom of the boat, and encourages the rowers by telling them anecdotes about the marvellous feats he performed last season.

Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.