All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that any match will light.

He couldn't see a belt without hitting below it.

The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. . . . There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.

She spends her day powdering her face till she looks like a bled pig.

The Bible tells us to forgive our enemies, not our friends