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

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

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

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.