The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave