You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.