To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Only the insane take themselves seriously.

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

The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.