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.

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.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

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

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate