The families of our friends are always a disappointment.
The secret of happiness is curiosity
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.
The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.
One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.