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

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.

How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.