I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.