I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.

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

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

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

All perfection is melancholy.

Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

There is nothing so costly as bargains.