It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

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

The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.

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

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.