To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.