It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.

Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me.

Every kind of writing is hypocritical.

"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.