I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

People are either born hosts or born guests.

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

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.