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.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

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

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

So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.

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

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!