Nobody ever died of laughter.

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

Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

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

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

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.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.