How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.

Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.