I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

There is no sin except stupidity.

Some people always know the price, but not the value

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

"Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information." "I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand." "Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that?" "I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person."