It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.
The families of our friends are always a disappointment.
One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.
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.