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

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

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

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

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

There is nothing so costly as bargains.