The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.