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.
Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision.
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us; but let heaven not less defend us from the beautiful spontaneous writer who puts his trust in the inspiration of the moment.