I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.