It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.