The families of our friends are always a disappointment.

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.

I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.

People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.

Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.

Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.