At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent and self-employed, with companions of their own age and selection.

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

When I have eaten mangoes, I have felt like Eve.