Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.

For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.