There is nothing so costly as bargains.

Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.

... 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.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

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.

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