The groundwork of all happiness is health.

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.

No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.