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.

There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them I shudder.

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.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.

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