Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty!

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)