Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.

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.

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

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

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.