I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

There's looks as speaks as strong as words.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

... I have always been a disappointment to my friends. I have no gift of talk, not much to say; and though I have always been an excellent listener, that only succeeds under auspicious circumstances.

Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent.

A hotel is a hotel all the world over, a place essentially vulgar, commonplace, venal, the travesty of a human home.

There is nothing so costly as bargains.