Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.

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.

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

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.