We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

Music is the perfect type of art.

I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.