In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.