Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.

There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary.

You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.

Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sister's friends can't or won't. But the youth who marries her, expecting that all her departures from convention will be as agile or as delightful to him as that, is still the classic example of folly.

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.