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

Thank heavens, the sun has gone in and I don’t have to go out and enjoy it.

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

It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.