Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.

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

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.

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

Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.

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.