When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.

A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.